College Guides

Many of the 200 school reviews on CollegeGuide.org first appeared in the print editions of Choosing the Right College or All-American Colleges. Eighty reviews are exclusive to CollegeGuide.org or have been updated since these books were published.

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Choosing the Right College
The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools

The college guide that changed college guides, ISI's critically acclaimed Choosing the Right College is perfect for those students—and their parents—who want an independent, truthful assessment of what is really happening at more than 100 of the nation's top schools. Unlike other college guides, which provide irrelevant statistics and officially approved opinions extraneous to the quality of education a school provides, Choosing the Right College covers the things that matter most.

The guide also provides specific advice on which professors to seek out-and which courses and departments to avoid. As an exclusive feature, Choosing the Right College advises students which courses they should take at each school to provide themselves with a true core curriculum. This unique build-your-own-core feature is one more reason that Choosing the Right College has become the most valuable and trusted college guide on the market for students seeking a genuine liberal education.

The print edition of Choosing the Right College 2008-9 is available from ISI Books.

All-American Colleges
Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith

Since it published its first college guide in 1998, tens of thousands of parents and their college-aged children have come to depend on ISI for informed and independent judgments of the prevailing intellectual, political, and social environments at America’s top colleges and universities. This guide provides a crucial supplement to the critically acclaimed Choosing the Right College. While Choosing the Right College covers America's elite private and public institutions, many of them hotbeds of politicized instruction and saddled with anemic curricula, in All-American Colleges ISI's editorial team provides personal, in-depth profiles of fifty highly recommended schools and programs.

At each of these diverse institutions, students who identify themselves as religious believers, conservatives, or old-fashioned liberals will find programs that connect in a special way with the core values of the American founding and the vibrant intellectual traditions of the West—schools and programs that are, in fact, often transformative. Based on fresh, extensive interviews with students, faculty, and administrators, the profiles in All-American Colleges extend the coverage of contemporary academia to accentuate the positive—while including necessary caveats about the unfortunate aspects of each school. The result is a unique new guide that parents—and buyers of Choosing the Right College—will not want to miss.

The print edition of All-American Colleges is available from ISI Books.